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The beauty
by mumbles
written on a blackberry en route to kansas city for baseball road trip 2010
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Posted at 16 July 10 at 20.07 in Culture
you say you want a revolution
by mumbles
This is a trip about symbolism.
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Posted at 04 July 10 at 01.07 in Culture, Travel
what is love, or, a story about
by mumbles
in this one you can piece together how my drafts begin and what happens when i decide i have no business finishing them
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Posted at 19 June 10 at 02.06 in Culture
Orgasm
by mumbles
I wish I could still write. Oh, well. Here’s a shot at it.
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Posted at 29 May 10 at 01.05 in Culture
From Iowa to the Inaugural: Campaign 1968-2008
by mumbles
A little over a year ago, the day after the Iowa caucuses, I wrote an essay called “From Iowa to the Inaugural.” But the real story of this election dates back to 1968. This was an election steeped in symbolism and parallel. Rare is it in American history that the analogies drawn and metaphors painted by politicians are as poingnant or as rich as those created by Barack Obama.
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Posted at 25 January 09 at 22.01 in Politics, Culture, Obama 08, Books
Gonzo
by mumbles
The point of Hunter S. Thompson was that he was full of shit. The point of Hunter S. Thompson is that everything he wrote about – the Hell’s Angels, the 1972 campaign, Ali vs. Foreman, Las Vegas – all of it was full of shit. The thing about the world is that it is full of shit. The thing about greatness is that it is always full of shit.
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Posted at 19 June 08 at 00.06 in Politics, Culture, Film
Forty Years in the Wilderness
by mumbles
King’s dream has lived on. But with his death, the faith of a generation of men and women who came of age under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s promise of a government that could care not just for the rich, but for all members of our society, began to falter. Forty years ago, an assassin’s bullet did more than kill a great leader, an American icon. It horribly wounded a movement.
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Posted at 04 April 08 at 09.04 in Politics, Culture, Obama 08
In Defense of Suburbia (More or Less)
by mumbles
Rare is an argument in defense of the suburbs. In the occasional instances that such arguments do arise, they generally emerge from the mouths of developers and other economically or politically interested parties. But Martinson’s American Dreamscape provides just such an argument – more or less.
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Posted at 03 April 08 at 19.04 in Culture, Books